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3 N.Y.P.D. Commanders Are Arrested on Corruption Charges:
Three New York Police Department commanders, including a deputy chief, were arrested early Monday, along with a Brooklyn businessman, on federal corruption charges stemming from one of several continuing investigations into Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fund-raising, according to court papers.
The arrests, of a deputy chief, a deputy inspector and a sergeant, were one of the most significant roundups of police supervisors in the recent history of the department. In striking the top ranks, the case is a particular blow to the storied — and sometimes sullied — reputation of the nation's largest municipal police force.
The court papers in the case detail lavish gifts the two senior police officials are accused of receiving in exchange for taking official action, including expensive meals, free overseas and domestic trips, and the referral of business to a security company associated with one of the officials. The deputy inspector was also accused of receiving a trip on a private jet to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl weekend in 2013, and was said to be accompanied by a prostitute.
Also at Reuters, NY Daily News, and DNAinfo.
(Score: 2) by archfeld on Tuesday June 21 2016, @10:54PM
I totally agree. The academies do their best to weed out those unsuitable for the job, e.g. those seeking a position of power, those insecure enough to really need approval, and of course those untrustworthy. But no matter how much screening you do some will slip through, and some will turn under the pressures of the job. You can never really tell how people will react under fire until it happens just as you can never really tell how people will react to temptation until it presents itself. Sadly so many of the interactions people have with police are negative, they show up when you been victimized, or when you are in trouble, there is rarely a happy experience. Everybody loves firemen, just like most people fear or outright hate the cops. Imagine what the roads would be like without them though, the idiots driving just barely obey the rules now, without the threat of a cop stop the roads would be a free for all.
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